Chapter 141 He saw his own face hanging upside down...
--Why?
What should have been a joyous and lively wedding banquet turned into this...
This is a scene that looks like hell on earth.
Pipa held her breath, trying to distinguish the charred corpses.
But I can't do it...
The fire burned very thoroughly, and every corpse was basically charred.
Clothes, hair, skin, and the like have completely lost their original appearance.
All they had were the same twisted postures, dark and ferocious appearances, with a faint trace of their last struggle before death, frozen in time by the fire, reminiscent of demons crawling up from the fiery hell.
Strangely, the loquat did not feel particularly afraid.
After the initial shock, he was no longer as panicked as before.
The fact that he could see these corpses at least shows that he wasn't the only person in the world.
That alone is enough to comfort me.
As for these dead people...
He just wanted to be sure of one thing: whether Lan, who had disappeared without a trace before, was among them.
"orchid……"
Are you there, Lan?
Pipa called softly, covering her mouth and nose with her sleeve, and walked with her head down among the corpses, bricks, and collapsed wooden beams.
He knew that he probably looked somewhat abnormal.
But there's no time to worry about that now.
Pipa didn't understand why she did it either.
In fact, even if Lan were to become one of the dead, he might not be able to recognize them.
But the loquat just couldn't control itself.
The scene of first seeing Lan in the bamboo house kept replaying in my mind; the man hidden in the dim light had captivating eyes.
Pipa once mistook the other person for Young Master Lan.
But when Lan removed her veil, she had a completely different, unfamiliar face.
Lan said she would ask Pipa to give her a name.
Pipa looked at the other person, at those eyes that were so similar to those of an old friend, and blurted out the surname of Young Master Lan.
Lan Xinran accepted.
They also said...
He also said that if loquats like him, he likes them too.
From the moment Pipa first saw Lan, the other person had been staying in that dark, sunless room.
Time seemed to be trapped in the same night from that moment on, repeating itself over and over again.
Lan, however, was trapped in time.
When did it start?
Pipa gradually began to forget her original purpose for staying, and simply wanted to stay and talk to Lan.
In the years when Lan Gongzi perished in the snow, and in the years when Li Xiao was nowhere to be found, the person who accompanied him the most was actually Lan.
Because she knew it was a dream, Pipa could speak her mind without restraint.
Although he didn't actually have that much to say.
But as long as Lan was there, he always felt he had a way out, because there was always someone waiting for him in the depths of the night, in a snow-covered bamboo hut.
Listen to yourself talking about trivial, insignificant things.
Then, when they ran out of things to say, they started telling the story of the siblings and the Taoist priest Yu for what seemed like the umpteenth time.
The loquat in the dream falls asleep listening to a story, and then wakes up in reality.
That day, the last time they met, was the first time that Lan actively banished Pipa from her dreams.
Pipa still remembered that Lan had told him to leave with Lu Qingyao.
However, he failed to listen to what the other person said.
Then, a whole host of other things happened.
Zhu Zhu's tip-off, Lan Gongzi's miraculous return from the dead, and the long-awaited reunion with Li Xiao... one thing after another, Pipa finally had something worth sharing.
But the dream of Lan and that bamboo house never returned to Pipa.
It was only then that Pipa gradually realized that the other party's statement about not seeing her was not just a joke.
But……
But now that he has finally returned to this dream, why is Lan still hiding from him and refusing to show herself?
—Lan Mingming said that as soon as it got light, she would bring him to today's wedding banquet.
But now that it's daylight, where has Lan gone?
Could it be that... he deliberately hid away because he was angry because he didn't listen to the other person's advice?
Thinking about this possibility actually made Pipa feel a little more relaxed.
What a petty person.
Pipa thought, no wonder the other party always hides their face and refuses to show their true face.
It was at this moment that the loquat suddenly stopped.
It wasn't because anything was found at the scene.
Instead, he suddenly realized that he could not recall the face behind the veil.
strangeness……
It really does look like a very ordinary face.
But... but, even the most ordinary person should leave some impression, like the shape of the nose, the thickness of the lips, the roundness and width of the chin—but I have absolutely no memory of any of these things.
If you try to forcefully remove that veil in your mind, all you can see is a pitch-black expanse that is no different from the shadow behind the man.
How could this be...?
Pipa started scratching her hair vigorously.
But it was no use. Even though he scratched his scalp until it ached, he still couldn't remember anything else.
orchid……
He gave Lan her name.
Lan's figure was hidden in the dim light of the room.
Lan's face was hidden under a veil and could not be seen clearly.
Pipa suddenly realized that she knew almost nothing about the man who had been with her for so long.
Besides his identity as the Imperial Advisor, there's also the story whose details gradually change as it's repeatedly told.
Are he and Lan really friends?
Suddenly, a drop of warm liquid hit Pipa's face.
The bewildered boy was jolted awake from his reverie.
Is it snow water?
Pipa almost immediately thought of the snow falling under the eaves of the bamboo house.
But then I realized... the snow was cold.
Then another drop of liquid fell, and this time he finally smelled the blood mixed with the stench of burnt corpses.
I wiped my hand, and sure enough, my hand was covered in sticky, bright red blood.
The loquat hesitated for a moment, then took two steps back, finally unable to resist looking up—
Immediately, his eyes widened uncontrollably.
Just a few meters away, Pipa saw herself hanging upside down... her face covered in blood.
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